Whatever our views are on piracy, this virus is still of criminal nature. "The Nopir-B worm targets people it believes may be involved in piracy, but fails to discriminate between the true criminals and those who may have legally obtained MP3 files. Whichever side of the fence you come down on in regards to internet piracy, there's no debate about the criminal nature of this worm," said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant for Sophos.
This is not the first virus to target music on infected PCs; the Klez-F worm spread around in 2002 and overwrote MP3 files on certain days. The Scrambler worm made MP3s sound like scratched records and the Mylife-G worm overwrote MP3 files with the words "my lIfE". This new Nopir-B worm will probably stop spreading very quickly, but just imagine other viruses like Blaster or Sasser were programmed to delete music files.
Source:
The Register
Written by: James Delahunty @ 22 Apr 2005 14:26
